Renouncing the world yet leading the church : the monk-bishop in late antiquity /
In the 4th-6th centuries, the monk-bishop became the dominant model of ecclesiastical leadership in the eastern Roman Empire and Byzantium. Andrea Sterk explores the social, political intellectual and theological grounding for this development.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2004.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I: BASIL OF CAESAREA AND THE EMERGENCE OF AN IDEAL:
- Monks and bishops in the Christian East from 325 to 375
- Asceticism and leadership in the thought of Basil of Caesarea
- Reframing and reforming the episcopate: Basil's direct influence
- II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEAL:
- Gregory of Nyssa: On Basil, Moses, and episcopal office
- Gregory of Nazianzus: ascetic life and episcopal office in tension
- John Chrysostom: the model monk-bishop in spite of himself
- III: THE TRIUMPH OF AN IDEAL:
- From nuisances to episcopal ideals: civil and ecclesiastical legislation
- Normalizing the model: the Fifth-Century church histories
- The broadening appeal: monastic and hagiographical literature
- Epilogue: The legacy of the monk-bishop in the Byzanine world.